The Heavenly Emperor of Chu

Chapter 129 The Desolate Tower (3K10K)

Chu Tianshu strolled through the Divine Ruins, and before long, he arrived at a wondrous and precious place.

An ancient tree, about ten feet tall and as thick as a bowl, appeared before Chu Tianshu.

Rays of divine light cascaded down from beneath the ancient trees, accompanied by a refreshing fragrance.

On the branches of that ancient tree, there were still seven or eight fist-sized, crystal-clear peaches hanging.

This ancient tree is the Peony Tree, a famous immortal elixir in the human world.

Near the Peach Tree, several holy spirits with hazy consciousness were being conceived.

Chu Tianshu guessed that these holy spirits were very likely the great holy spirits that were later killed by the Azure Emperor, and were still in the process of being nurtured and had not yet reached their full potential.

Ignoring the holy spirits of this place, Chu Tianshu waved his hand, and the Peach Tree instantly rose from the ground and fell into his pocket.

Immediately, Chu Tianshu continued to wander through the Divine Ruins, searching for the whereabouts of the Desolate Tower.

Before long, Chu Tianshu discovered the existence of the Desolate Tower deep within the Divine Ruins.

A majestic stone tower stands deep within the Divine Ruins, its mere presence on the earth suggesting a vast and boundless world.

An endless, ancient aura emanates from the stone tower, seemingly transporting people to a boundless, wild, and incredibly ancient era.

"Is this the Desolate Tower?"

Chu Tianshu looked at the towering, desolate tower before him and murmured to himself.

He could sense that within this desolate tower lay a vast and ancient power.

Meanwhile, inside the desolate tower, there is an immortal and indestructible aura that is awe-inspiring and cannot be erased even by time.

This is none other than one of the most rare immortal artifacts in the human realm—the Desolate Tower!
This immortal artifact is far superior to the Emperor's Myriad Origin Cauldron.

After all, it is said that the Desolate Tower was forged by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor who had already become an immortal, while the Origin Cauldron of All Things was only created by the Emperor with the help of the great power of heaven and earth. It is normal for there to be a difference between the two.

"Come!"

Chu Tianshu grabbed out with his large hand, and boundless laws of the Great Dao appeared, transforming into a giant hand that blotted out the sky, ready to take down the Desolate Tower directly.

Buzz!
The desolate tower seemed to sense the danger, and immediately shone brightly. Vast immortal light burst forth from the tower, terrifying to the extreme, as if even the Great Dao would be obliterated.

"No wonder the Supreme Being of the Divine Ruins did not use this supreme immortal artifact; it was not that he was unwilling, but that he was unable to."

The Desolate Tower, unleashing its full power, possessed an aura even stronger than that of the flawless Ancient Emperor.

Even if those supreme beings in the forbidden zones reached the pinnacle of their abilities, they might not be able to subdue it, so naturally they couldn't conquer it.

However, for Chu Tianshu, the Desolate Tower's resistance was futile. He simply pressed down lightly and completely suppressed the Desolate Tower.

The next moment, the once towering desolate tower fell silent, then shrank rapidly and fell into Chu Tianshu's palm.

Before long, Chu Tianshu had finished looting the Divine Ruins, but he did not take this piece of divine land with him.

On the one hand, the Divine Ruins were not of much use to Chu Tianshu.

On the other hand, this is also a precious place left for future enlightened beings.

After all, most of the Dao-proving figures in the ancient era were emperors of the human race, and this sage should leave something for future generations.

After leaving the Divine Ruins, Chu Tianshu took a step forward and began to travel through the starry sky.

He did not choose to continue his seclusion. After several revisions, he perfected the method of silkworm molting to its ultimate level.

Even if we continue to refine our research for the next ten thousand years, we will not be able to make any breakthrough progress.

It would be better to take this opportunity to travel through the mortal world and temper one's Dao heart, which might increase one's chances of the next transformation.

Chu Tianshu chose Ziwei Ancient Star as his first stop.

As one of the origins of the human race, even though the Ziwei Ancient Star has not produced a Dao Prover for a long time, it is still incredibly prosperous.

Especially after Chu Tianshu helped the two major religions retrieve their imperial weapons, their fame spread far and wide among humans and throughout the universe.

The entire Ziwei Starfield ushered in a long period of peace, and the human population began to surge.

Even the dark turmoil during the reign of Fuxi did not affect this place.

Upon entering the ancient star of Ziwei, one can see various temples everywhere, which enshrine the golden statues of the two holy emperors, Taiyin and Taiyang, as well as Taiyi, Fuxi, Nuwa, and others.

The divine images of the two Holy Emperors, Taiyin and Taiyang, were established by Chu Tianshu at the request of all races in the human realm. He wanted to see if the power of faith could revive the two Holy Emperors.

Unfortunately, more than 100,000 years have passed without much success, and it may take some more time.

As for the golden bodies of the remaining few, they were created spontaneously by cultivators from various races.

After all, when Chu Tianshu and others lived in this world, they did indeed resolve many of the sources of turmoil for later generations.

However, apart from the human race, other ancient races still respectfully address each other by the names of the emperors of the ancient times.

For example, Chu Tianshu is respectfully addressed as Taiyi Tiandi by the human race, while the various ancient races pay homage to him under the name Taihuang Tiandi.

Emperor Fuxi is also known as Emperor Fu or Emperor Xi, while Emperor Nuwa is known as Emperor Nuwa.

Chu Tianshu even discovered temples in various places that enshrined Lingbao Tianzun and Dizun.

After all, these individuals had appeared in the mortal realm not long ago. The passage of time has led many to mistakenly believe they have become immortals, including some cultivators.

These mortals and monks flocked to various temples, praying to the crowd.

Chu Tianshu shook his head, not paying much attention. The next moment, he transformed into a mortal and began to travel around the ancient star of Ziwei.

Sometimes he would transform into an ordinary cultivator and venture out and adventure with those ordinary cultivators, reliving the precarious life of his youth.

In the early days of Chu Tianshu's cultivation, he risked his life to explore the ruins of his predecessors in search of resources, encountering countless dangers along the way.

Sometimes it's because of a contingency plan left by the tomb owner, sometimes it's because of a dispute over the spoils leading to betrayal, and sometimes it's because of accidental exposure that they are hunted down by the tomb owner's descendants...

Revisiting it now brings a unique feeling.

This also made Chu Tianshu's Dao heart clear again, brushing away some dust, and his mentality also eased a lot.

For the past 20,000 years, he has been under the threat of the Emperor, and sometimes he inevitably becomes impatient.

If one attempts to transform in this state, the probability of failure is likely to be very high.

This is why Chu Tianshu did not choose to continue his seclusion, but instead traveled the mortal world.

Approximately a thousand years later, Chu Tianshu departed from the ancient star Ziwei and returned to his homeland, the ancient star Tianji, in this world.

Unlike the Ziwei Ancient Star, the entire Tianji Ancient Star is completely under the control of the Chu family.

Even though Chu Tianshu did not deliberately cultivate the Chu family after he attained enlightenment, the Overlord Bloodline and the Heavenly Emperor Scripture still enabled the Chu family to develop rapidly.

However, although the Chu family also possesses the bloodline of the Overlord Body, their actions are not as domineering as those of the Overlord Body Ancestral Star. Instead, they are much gentler and have a kingly demeanor.

This may be related to Chu Tianshu, the Heavenly Emperor of the Human Race. In order to maintain the glory of the Heavenly Emperor Taiyi, the Chu family would naturally not act too domineeringly, so as not to tarnish the Heavenly Emperor Taiyi's reputation.

A thousand years later, Chu Tianshu left Tianji Ancient Star and continued his journey into the depths of the universe.

Whenever Chu Tianshu arrives at a new star field, he will stop and travel there for a thousand years.

Chu Tianshu traversed both the human and ancient star systems, experiencing the magnificent universe and the customs and traditions of all races.

Over the years, with the seamless succession of the Great Goddess Nuwa, the universe has remained quite peaceful, and no major races have caused any trouble as a result.

Especially after the Great Goddess Nuwa passed away, all races and forces went into hiding, patiently waiting for the suppression of the Great Dao to dissipate.

Ten thousand years passed in the blink of an eye. High above the nine heavens, as the Great Dao of the Nuwa Emperor dissipated, all the myriad paths of heaven and earth began to revive, and a new era of great contention arrived.

This time, no self-proclaimed Dao-achievers were granted the Dao, much to the relief of all races.

They released their clans' prodigies, some of whom had been sealed away for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years, to compete for the throne in this lifetime.

Unfortunately, these self-proclaimed geniuses did not achieve their wish. After three thousand years of fierce competition, the battle for the Great Emperor in this era has finally come to an end.

Also at the Ultimate Imperial Pass, this prodigy, dressed in a golden battle armor of tribulation, first defeated all the prodigies of the past and present.

Then, he forcefully broke through the tribulation of attaining enlightenment, merged with the Heavenly Heart Mark, and became the most powerful emperor in the world, thus attaining enlightenment and becoming emperor.

Ten thousand years later, a new emperor has reappeared.

If nothing unexpected happens, the next 20,000 years will be the era of this new emperor.

This new emperor was also of human origin and called himself the Daoyan Emperor.

In an instant, the entire human realm was in an uproar.

Including Dao Yan, the entire human race has produced four Dao Provers in the ancient era, and they are consecutive without any interruption.

This situation was difficult for all races in the world to accept for a time, and some even doubted that the ancient era was no longer suitable for the survival of ancient races.

A new human emperor appeared, and his immense power was even felt by Chu Tianshu.

"The Dao's Evolution?"

Chu Tianshu stood amidst the starry sky, his gaze piercing through endless time and space, and saw a middle-aged man with an imposing presence.

At this moment, he was wearing a golden battle robe of the Dao Tribulation, receiving the worship of all races. His vast imperial might swept across the eight wastelands, shaking heaven and earth.

According to later accounts, Emperor Daoyan attained enlightenment in the early stages of the ancient era, and was one of the earliest emperors of the human race.

Records of this human emperor that have been passed down to later generations are also very scarce, but his ending should be much better than that of Fuxi.

After all, he still had one imperial son left behind in later generations.

"However, the Great Dao of this Dao Yan Emperor is indeed interesting." Chu Tianshu nodded slightly.

Unlike other Daoists, Dao Yan is more adept at studying the universe and transforming it for his own use, perhaps because he was born in the Eternal Starfield.

That star field is very skilled at using all kinds of divine materials to create powerful mechs, and the cultivators there mostly rely on mechs for combat.

However, Dao Yan was completely different. He applied this research mindset more to cultivation, analyzing and dissecting various great Daos.

This gave him a profound understanding of the myriad principles of the universe, enabling him to decisively defeat other competitors and achieve final victory.

In particular, based on the incomplete text of the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, he created the Evolution Liquid, which has remarkable effects and can effectively enhance the foundation and potential of cultivators.

The strongest bloodline evolution fluid among them has a good effect even on Emperor-level beings.

(End of this chapter)